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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Burkina Faso	Cape Verde
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	11,075	422
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	11,405	430
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	11,828	438
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	12,380	447
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	12,829	455
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	13,178	463
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	13,540	471
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	13,917	478
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	14,309	486
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	14,722	494
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	15,152	501
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	15,600	509
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	16,064	516
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	16,563	524
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	17,072	531
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	17,575	539
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	18,094	546
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	18,621	553
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	19,157	562
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	19,698	568
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	20,242	574
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	20,788	580
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	21,336	585
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	21,889	590

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

No separate list is published for Burkina Faso, Cape Verde; the database as a whole is cited above.